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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Mid-Sized Colleges
Student safety is a high priority for all colleges and universities. While colleges and universities are typically safer than the areas that surround them, many schools face important and unique challenges. Law Street's Campus Crime Rankings were created to serve as a comprehensive look at the safety of our college campuses, and to act as a resource for students, families, and college communities.
Federal law requires all postsecondary institutions that receive federal financial aid to report and monitor criminal offenses on their campuses. Each year this self-reported data is published by the Department of Education to help colleges and their communities understand the safety challenges that they face. Law Street Campus Crime Rankings utilize the most recent three years of this data to determine the average violent crime rate per 1,000 students for each school with available statistics.
Our rankings break up schools into different categories to ensure that the comparisons are as helpful and fair as possible. This list ranks mid-sized schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments between 10,000 to 20,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Mid-Sized Campuses below:
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Marquette University is a private, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Between 2011 and 2013, Marquette reported 27 forcible sex offenses, making up close to 60 percent of the school’s total violent crimes.
Marquette faced scrutiny after revelations that its campus security force dismissed two students’ reports of sexual assault involving athletes at the school. Marquette also did not notify Milwaukee police about the incident, a violation of state law. These cases led the Department of Education to launch an investigation into the Marquette’s handling of the cases. The school changed and enhanced its reporting policy to ensure that sexual assault allegations are reported immediately to the Sensitive Crimes Unit of the Milwaukee Police Department, and added a full-time victim advocate to the Student Health Service staff.
The university offers bystander intervention training designed to teach those interested in learning how to prevent sexual assaults on campus. The Marquette University Police Department was created this May, giving the university its own police force. Before the police department, Marquette had a Public Safety Department that was licensed by the state as a private detective agency, but not sworn law enforcement. The newly founded department is equipped with 90 trained public safety professionals including 20 sworn police officers, and more than 700 security cameras.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 11,782 (8,365 undergraduate)
Violent Crime Rate: 1.33 per 1,000 students*
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offenses: 27
Robbery: 5
Aggravated Assault: 15
Campus Setting: City (Large)
*Marquette’s average violent crime rate was rounded to 1.33 from 1.3297
-Campus crime statistics are three year totals from 2011, 2012, and 2013
-The average violent crime rate is an average of the three-year data shown as a rate per 1,000 students
Click here to see the methodology used for the rankings.
Research and analysis done by Law Street’s Crime in America team:
Kevin Rizzo, Kwame Apea, Jennie Burger, Alissa Gutierrez, and Maurin Mwombela.
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